Identifying PCI devices – lspci

Most PC Cards such as Network Interface Cards ( NIC ), Sound Cards are PCI devices. To get a list of PCI devices on your computer use lspci. lspci has a list of options, the most frequently used option being -v(verbose), you can also use -vv or -vvv to increase the extent of verbosity. For a complete list of options view the man pages(man lspci).

For instance if you are trying to identify your sound card use:

lspci | grep audio

on the terminal(Applications>Accessories>Terminal)

this will print the list of Sound Card/s. something like:

01:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)

Similarly lspci can also be used to identify other devices such as NICs